ME: I've finally made it to a double digit number! Yay!
Kitty: Okay, for the last time, it's not that big a deal.
ME: By the way, Kitty, I finished chapter twelve AND 13 and I'm already starting on 14.
Kitty:..........Crap, now I owe everyone here ten bucks.
ME: Ha ha! Go on and get the chapter started already! What are you waiting for?!
Kitty: I hope you guys know that you're not getting that ten bucks.
Chapter 10
Phineas stopped running several times to make sure he was still going the right way. "Okay, Ferb is about one mile that way." He said when Isabella caught up with him and pointed.
He took off running again before Isabella could say anything. "A-at least walk the way there or wait for me every now and then!" She said and began running once again.
Phineas ran through the people walking down the sidewalk, careful not to run anybody down. He knew Isabella wasn't a great runner, but he didn't want to wait for her because that would mean Ferb would be getting further away.
And Phineas was NOT going to let him slip away when he's this close.
Ferb didn't know where he was going, or if he was being followed by Dr. D, but he knew one thing for sure: he had to get help quickly.
Legs feeling like rubber and lungs ready to explode, Ferb kept running.
The bright sunlight nearly blinded him. It made his head dizzy and his stomach churn. But then again maybe it was just because he hasn't eaten in a long time and the heat was making him feel worse.
He slowed down some and then stopped completely. He could barely breathe and he was THIS close to collapsing. Ferb leaned against a building, trying to catch his breathe.
People looked at him funny, but he ignored them. He felt something come up his throat, but he held it back. The last thing he needed was to barf in the middle of a sidewalk.
But it looked like the vomit was very intent on coming out then, so Ferb dashed into a nearby alley and just threw up. He fell to one knee and threw up one more time.
"......Gross." He muttered and stood back up. Well, he tried at least.
He wobbled and fell back against the brick wall. His head was spinning and his vision was growing blurry.
"He's not far away! Come on, we need to hurry!" Phineas yelled and began running again. According to the F-Tracker, Ferb was less than 100 yards away! He was close!
"Phineas, wait for me!" Isabella said running after him. He didn't slow down for her, not with Ferb so close by.
Suddenly, the F-Tracker beeped.
He looked down and stopped running.
He stopped so suddenly the person behind him crashed into his back. "Watch it, kid!" The older man said and began walking again.
Isabella finally caught up to Phineas. "Sl-slow down, please!" She said and tried catching her breathe.
Phineas didn't look up from the F-Tracker. Isabella looked over his shoulder to see what the problem was.
Ferb's dot was vanishing and then reappearing. Every time it reappeared it was in a completely different location.
"Why is it doing that, Phineas?" She asked.
He couldn't answer, because he didn't know either.
Ferb was just outside the alley when he felt his stomach knot up again. He fell to the ground, puking his guts out.
Phineas and Isabella stood in the middle of the sidewalk, people pushing past them in a hurry.
Ferb's dot was now in Tokyo, Japan. It vanished and appeared in the southern part of Africa. Phineas whacked the F-Tracker twice.
"Cut it out! Where's Ferb?!" He asked the inatimate object angrily. Isabella nervously looked at the people who stopped and stared at them.
The F-Tracker went crazy.
Thirty dots were scattered around Africa, China, India, and everything around it. Then the screen flipped vertically, making everything on the screen upside down. It flipped over again, this time, though, it was zoomed in on the Florida area.
Every single dot disappeared except for Phineas's and the screen read, DNA match has disappeared.
Both teenagers were silent.
"What....? No...! No, it couldn't have disappeared!!" Phineas yelled. Isabella jumped. "What does it mean if-" She stopped and remembered what he told her earlier.
"As long as his dot appears on the F-Tracker, he's alive. If it disappears....."
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Everyone walking down the sidewalk crowded around a boy that collapsed on the ground in a pile of vomit.
"Somebody call an ambulance! Hey, kid, can you hear me?" A woman asked and shook his shoulder.
Nothing happened.
"Hurry, I think he's almost-" She stopped when she heard him mutter something. "What did you say?" The woman asked. A man nearby dialed 911 and people ran off to get some help.
".....Ferb.....Fletcher...." He muttered, though his eyes were still closed.
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Phineas threw the F-Tracker at a wall with all of his might.
It split into three pieces and hit the ground.
He fell to the ground, tears threatening to spill over any second. He just couldn't believe it. He was too late.
Isabella squatted down next to him and put her arm around him. She wanted to comfort him, but nothing she could say would help him at the moment.
Several minutes later, an ambulance sped down the road, it's red and blue lights flashing and siren whaling.
Isabella, just mildly curious, stood back up and looked down the road. She was people jump out of the back of the ambulance about one hundred feet down the sidewalk. They brought out a stretcher and put somebody on it.
Isabella's eyes tripled.
"Phineas! It's Ferb!"
Phineas looked up at her, the tears still threatening to fall.
"What?!" He jumped up and looked down at the ambulance. Sure enough, it was Ferb they were putting in the back of the car.
"WAIT!!!" He screamed and began sprinting down the street.
The doors of the ambulance closed and it began to back up. Phineas was tired and could barely breathe, but he continued running.
The ambulance had turned around, ready to head down the street again, but stopped when the driver saw Phineas he honked the horn.
Phineas held up his hand and ran to the driver's door and threw it open. "Wh-wh-where are you taking him?!!" He asked, out of breathe.
The driver looked at the crowded sidewalk and the review mirror and slammed the door. "I'm in a rush, so move!" He said and began driving away.
Phineas wasn't letting them get away.
He tried running again, but the exhaustion and the fact that he couldn't breathe finally caught up with him. He fell to the ground, gasping and sweating like crazy.
Isabella caught up to him, gasping and sweating herself. "W-we need to rest for a little while. We c-can just check out the hospital l-later." She said.
Phineas shook his head. "No....we have to keep going." He said and stood back up. Only to fall back down.
"Phineas, both of us have to rest or else we'll get dehidrated." Isabella said and tried helping him stand back up again. The two sat down on a bench next to the bus stop.
'Hang on for just a little while longer, Ferb.' He thought.
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Ferb was slipping in and out of consiousness. He was vaguely aware of being in the back of an ambulance with people crowding around him.
He tried to tell them his name and his number to call his family, but he couldn't get any words out.
He swore he heard Phineas, but then again it could've been his imagination. But he had a very strong feeling that it wasn't his mind playing tricks with him.
"......Phin....." He tried to call out for his step brother, but with the noise of the sirens he could barely hear it himself. He could feel himself start to slip into unconsiousness again.
"Hang on, we'll be at the hospital shortly." One of the people in the back with him said.
".....where is he?" He asked just before he went unconsious.
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ME: That concluded chapter ten!
Kitty: I still say you're gonna just leave the story soon and get all worked up on something else. By the way how long are you planning to make the story?
ME:......Uh.....
Kitty: Translation: "I have no idea because I've never thought about it."
ME: Okay so I don't know, what's wrong with that? The story'll be as long as I make it, all right? Anyway, don't forget to review!!
Kitty: Also don't forget what happens if you flame. *pulls out sharp stick*